You could be a victim of 'benching', a new dating term sweeping the country.

It can be really disheartening, opening up your Tinder app only to find you haven't matched with anybody recently.

According to New York Magazine's Beta Male , there's now a new way to describe potential suitors being absolutely horrible to us, reports the Mirror.

Jason writes how he would receive texts from the man he was seeing but when it came to meeting up and going on dates, plans always seemed to miraculously fall through.

It wasn't until he found himself inadvertently doing the same to another person that he realised what was going on.

Tinder is one of the most popular dating apps in the UK (Image: Getty)

Jason compares it to a sports team. While this person doesn't quite know if they want to date you (or 'play in the team', so to speak) they don't want the possibility of dating you to disappear forever.